Five Milwaukee health care organizations are among 57 national finalists for funding grants to support promising community-based work on health improvement.
The organizations are: Southside EAT Coalition/ CORE El Centro; Sixteenth Street Community Health Center; Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center; Center for Urban Population Health; and UW-Extension.
The 57 grant finalists, selected from close to 200 applicants across the country, will be narrowed to approximately 30 communities by mid-April.
The grants are part of a new initiative known as SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) that aims to work with communities on developing capability to improve health and to spread effective community-driven approaches across the U.S.
“We are thrilled with the strong interest from communities around the country interested in joining the SCALE initiative to accelerate their health improvement journey – and to ultimately help build a healthier world,” said Soma Stout, executive external lead of health improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which is one of SCALE’s leaders. “Selected from more than 200 applicants, these finalists represent some of the most innovative and creative approaches to improving the health and well-being of people, populations and their communities-at-large.”
SCALE is funded by the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement of Cambridge, Mass.; Community Solutions of New York City; Communities Joined in Action of Atlanta; and the Collaborative Health Network of Portland, Maine.
